COLUMBUS, Ohio. – In their final ITA event of the fall tennis season, the Fighting Illini women's tennis team sent six athletes to the ITA Midwest Super Regional at Ohio State University this past weekend, Oct. 22-24.
The doubles team of Kate Duong and Josie Frazier advanced to the quarterfinals of the doubles bracket, while Duong and freshman Megan Heuser advanced to the round of 16 in the singles bracket.
Juniors Ashley Yeah and Josie Frazier both fell in the round of 32 singles, while the teams of Kasia Treiber/Kida Ferrari and Heuser/Yeah fell in the round of 16 doubles.
Illinois will conclude the fall tennis schedule this weekend at the Tennessee Hidden Dual in Knoxville, Tenn.
FULL RESULTS
Doubles
Round of 16
Cassie Alcala/Sloane Teske (Toledo) def. Kasia Treiber/Kida Ferrari (ILL), 8-6
No. 46 Jaedan Brown/Kari Miller (UM) def. Megan Heuser/Ashley Yeah (ILL), 8-3
Kate Duong/Josei Frazier (ILL) def. Yuliya Kizelbasheva/Lenka Antonijevic (DePaul), 8-6
Quarterfinals
Sydni Ratliff/Irina Cantos Siemers (OSU) def. Kate Duong/Josie Frazier (ILL), 8-4
Singles
Round of 32
No. 113 Xinyu Cai (UW) def. Josie Fraiser (ILL), 6-4, 6-3
Katherine Duong (ILL) def. Alexandra Abyasova (ISU), 6-2, 5-7, 6-1
No. 90 Clarissa Hand (NU) def. Ashley Yeah (ILL), 7-5, 4-6, 6-4
Megan Heuser (ILL) def. Nibedita Ghosh (ND), 4-6, 6-2, 6-0
Round of 16
No. 101 Maria Shusharina (NU) def. Katherine Duong (ILL), 7-6 (2), 6-4
Lucia Marzal (OSU) def. Megan Heuser (ILL), 6-1, 6-3
Extra Matches
Doubles
Yuliya Kizelbasheva/Lenka Antonijevic (DePaul) def. Kasia Treiber/Kida Ferrari (ILL), 8-6
Singles
Ema Lazic (NU) def. Josie Fraiser (ILL), 6-2, 7-5
Ashley Yeah (ILL) def. Carrie Beckman (ND), 7-6 (6), 6-1
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